Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de l’Histoire (2019): Dismantling the Tale of French History through Disseminated Micro-Histories
Résumé
Le Roman noir de l'Histoire (2019) is a collection of 77 short stories written over the years, collected and republished according to a new structure. In this short story collection, Daeninckx seems to an ideal literary form: the very form of History itself, broken up and fragmented into a multitude of micro-narratives. From one macronarrative to multiple micro-narratives, Daeninckx has shifted from being a “raconteur of History” (Reid 2010) to a storyteller. Between a short story collection and a novel, how can we understand the formal contradiction contained in the very title of the book? In what way does this assembly and chronological montage of short stories constitute a noir novel?
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